{"id":177686,"date":"2025-06-29T19:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/29\/jake-paul-wants-to-fight-anthony-joshua\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T19:06:08","slug":"jake-paul-wants-to-fight-anthony-joshua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/29\/jake-paul-wants-to-fight-anthony-joshua\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul wants to fight Anthony Joshua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-06-29\" datetime=\"1751223968\" pubdate=\"\">29 June 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Jake Paul wants the &#8220;challenge&#8221; of fighting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/anthony-joshua\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,anthony-joshua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony Joshua<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Jake Paul wants to face Anthony Joshua<\/p>\n<p>The YouTuber-turned-boxer defeated former middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr by unanimous decision on Saturday night (28.06.25), and Jake is now looking to face Joshua, a London 2012 gold medallist and the former heavyweight world champion.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at his post-fight press conference, Jake said: &#8220;I&#8217;m definitely not a heavyweight, but I&#8217;m still gonna take the challenge. You look at Deontay Wilder; he was beating these guys weighing 215 pounds, he&#8217;s like 6ft 6in or something, but anything is possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/anthony-joshua\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,anthony-joshua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony Joshua<\/a> is an insane fight, but I want that challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jake and Joshua have already discussed the possibility of fighting each other in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\nJake said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve been DM-ing back and forth. He wants to make it happen. He called me up and it&#8217;s looking very likely for next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nDespite this, Chavez Jr has rubbished the idea that Jake could beat Joshua or any other world champion.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said post-fight: &#8220;He&#8217;s strong, a good boxer [for] the first three, four rounds. After that, I felt he was tired. I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s ready for the champions, but he&#8217;s a good fighter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Jake recently hit back at his critics, insisting that he&#8217;s already fought lots of credible opponents in his boxing career.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 28-year-old star accused his critics of &#8220;idiotic low-level thinking&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe former Bizaardvark star &#8211; who defeated former world champion Mike Tyson back in November &#8211; told Extra: &#8220;I love this criticism because it just shows how daft people are. It&#8217;s like, on one hand they&#8217;ll call Anderson Silva one of the greatest fighters of all time, and then they&#8217;ll say these things and completely discredit Anderson Silva, discredit Tyron Woodley, a multiple-time UFC champion. You know, the list goes on and on with prominent names that I&#8217;ve beat. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Mike Perry, they called the kind of violence, he was in his prime, bare-knuckle God, said he was gonna starch me \u2014 knocked him out.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It again shows the stupidity of people and that they\u2019ll think one thing going into a fight and then when I prove them wrong, they just fall back on their regular idiotic low-level thinking ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/jake-paul-wants-fight-anthony-joshua-1421202.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 June 2025 Jake Paul wants the &#8220;challenge&#8221; of fighting Anthony Joshua. Jake Paul wants to face Anthony Joshua The YouTuber-turned-boxer defeated former middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr by unanimous decision on Saturday night (28.06.25), and Jake is now looking to face Joshua, a London 2012 gold medallist and the former heavyweight world champion. 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